i need the lord in my life

Your word have I hidden in my heart, that I might not sin against You. Psalm 119:11Do you want to know how to live a more holy and victorious life? Firstly, seek the Lord with all your heart. It means to desire Him, want Him, need Him above any and every other desire. Secondly, hide God’s word in your heart. Study the word so that the Holy Spirit can bring it to your remembrance when you need it. So you can then be comforted, corrected, and guided.You should seek to live pure lives by living according to His word because to do so glorifies God. It honours Him. Pleasing God because you love Him and want to honour Him.

A lord peep-oed his pap of a car hornAt me, because I walked. I shruggedThe bowed low and let my arm offer toDrape a red carpet in the road for him.I did that. I protest against speed andFury and un-needful things. I bless theDay with irony and pantomime. I thinkThat if we were to think, we would notDrive automobiles. They crash and roar.What is life for? Not for getting thereMore quickly but for understanding theNature of the journey, for appreciation.If life is in the way of your urgency, thenYou may have misunderstood something.

Hannah Adult Life is Starting for me and i am Scared. like between work and school i barely have time for anything else and i feel like i'm missing out on stuff and i'm stressed and i want to do my best work but i also want to have a life and enjoy some things a little but it's a Lot. like i know itll be worth it in a few years but. rn it's overwhelming i just need like two more days in the week so i can have Time

lord do i understand this feeling a lot and like. it’s legitimate? when you are working your way through school, time is a luxury. so i think the most comforting thing i can tell you here is that you’re like, not imagining the difficulties of this situation, and it’s Not Just You who finds it hard. it’s a hard thing you’re doing! there’s nothing wrong with looking at a difficult thing and going oh man this is difficult.

the thing is, being scared in and of itself is not a bad thing. it’s not a fun thing by any stretch of the imagination, but ‘feel the fear and do it anyway’ is real advice i have to give to you.

like. look, goddamn did i not progress through university gracefully. i dragged my ass through it kicking and screaming and crying and forgetting important assignments and leaving tests with the paper in hand and failing classes. i was Overwhelmed in every sense of the word.

and holy fuck was it worth it.

like here is the thing, you are not going to stay static and then suddenly be Prepared upon leaving school. the experiences i had in my first semester were worth it when it came to my second semester. the experiences of my first year were worth it for my second year. the experiences of the second semester of my second year, in which i failed two classes because i hated what i was doing, helped me realise what i needed to do in turn, and the rest of my university career after that point as honestly a delight in comparison because of that.

all of this to say, you will get better at dealing with all of this shit as time goes on. you learn how your classes and your school works, you learn how to best schedule things, you learn how to make your life fit in around everything else. it’s supposed to feel alien and overwhelming at first - it’s something you’ve never done before! you have spent a lot of your life being dictated to and guided by the school system, only to suddenly be dropped into this situation where the only thing making you work is you. that’s a lot of freedom and responsibility to gain all at once.

anyway, my recommendation to you is to do things early. speaking as someone who never did this ever and frequently wrote 2k word essays the morning they were due, you will have a lot more time for life if you make sure to get your assignments out of the way as soon as you get them, not as soon as they are due. not only does this save time and a LOT of energy stressing, i regularly disappointed myself by discovering that i was actually super fucking interested in the thing i was scrambling to write about, and i didn’t have the time to take in and enjoy the topic like i would have if i’d given myself the space to do it earlier.

being on top of your work also means that you feel like you have the breathing room to Do Things and Have A Life. putting things off in favour of life having just means that you’re aren’t going to be able to fully enjoy it because you’ll be stressing about whatever thing you’re not doing. get your school shit in order, and you will feel more like you have the room to do other things, because you are Organised.

consider your school shit as a part of having a Life as well. like, you’re learning shit in a way you will never have an opportunity to learn it once you leave. school isn’t just a means to an end, it’s an end in and of itself. t r u s t m e, you are going to miss jstor when its gone.

I cannot draw guys for shit, no matter how damn hard I fuckin’ try. This guy’s got the face of what many would depict as a greek god, or like a roman statue. He’s got a very defined facehole, with a jaw that could cut the string of life like in Hercules. He has a chiseled jaw that could decapitate a stone statue’s head, and it’s just…

SO FUCKING HARD

@markiplier HOW DO YOU LIVE WITH A FACE THAT WAS CHISELED BY THE LORDS OF THE COSMOS

HOW DOES YOUR FACEHOLE DEFINE JUSTICE

HOW IS IT SO… DEFINED

WHAT IS YOUR FECKIN’ SECRETS

I NEED TO KNOW

FOR 18 YEARS, I’VE BEEN SHEDDING BLOOD, SWEAT, SOUL FLAKES, AND TEARS TO MAKE MY ART NOT JUST DETAILED TO THE T, BUT TO MAKE IT ABSOLUTELY PERFECT

YOUR FACEHOLE FRUSTRATES ME, MARK

THE ONLY THING KEEPING ME TO YOUR CHANNEL IS DICK JOKES AND MEMES

THIS IS HOW FAR I COME

TO BE BESTED YET PLEASED BY A MAN OF DIFFICULT FACIAL REGION GEOGRAPHY AND FEATURES

(Sorry for the late posting!) I read some amazing fics this week, and I can’t wait to share them with you!

Open At The Touch by kiaronna, Teen, 6.5kMaybe Nishigori got ahold of a lock of Viktor’s hair, and some Polyjuice potion. Maybe it’s all an elaborate prank. With this as his only reasonable explanation, he steps forward, snags Viktor by his robes and tugs him in. There has to be an explanation, mystical and magical or medical, for the best Seeker in the Quidditch world showing up at his door; something besides his portrait, which won’t stop talking to Yuuri anyway.

I LOOOOOOOVED this HP AU! So cute and funny, and also angsty??? One of my favourite HP AUs yet!

The Roommate Trap by impolitecanadian, Mature, 2k (WIP)Victor doesn’t believe in marriage. So when Chris, his best friend and roommate of 6 years, tells him he’s going to have to move out so he can get married, Victor is reasonably upset. Good thing Victor’s upstairs neighbour is looking for a roommate and maybe a little (okay, a lot) more.

I saw this recommended to me on fan rec friday’s and I thought I would give it a shot! Already entertaining so far, I can’t wait to see what happens next! I also love how it’s set in Canada, that’s pretty cool haha!

I. AM. SOBBING. I LOVED THIS FIC SO MUCH!! The ending had me shook, laughing, crying, screaming!! I loved it!

What Now?by shereadsthestars, Mature, 15k (WIP)Viktor Nikiforov, Niki to his closest friends- well, closest friend, singular, prefers to keep his nose clean.He’s not the type to hold a strong presence in the room, or even dominate the conversation. He’s quiet, and mindful. And would really just like to finish out the rest of his college career in peace. So it’s no question that his unwavering, slightly over-the-top infatuation with one Yuuri Katsuki is a bit of a problem.

So you all know I’m the biggest fan of college/university AUs, so I had to read this when I saw it on FRF! I love how it’s a reverse AU, I am so obsessed with shy/studious Victor!! (The long hair is also a big bonus haha) Thumbs up!

Much To Do About Everything by DiAnna44, Teen, 5.4k (WIP)Victor and Yuuri don’t like each other. Which is, of course, perfectly acceptable. Except they never shut up about it, and Phichit and Chris, who are both tired of hearing about it and tasked with the duty of being the wonderful best friends that they are, decide to finally do something about it. Starfleet Academy/Star Trek AU.

GIVE ME ALL THE STAR TREK AUs!!! I love this fic already, the rivals aspect is giving me LIFE! I cannot wait to see where the story goes!

Jackpotby Ashida, Explicit, 5.6k”Did you think you could get away with it again, Yuuri? Or are you getting greedy?“ Victor drawled low, taunting, trying to bring that person he knew out so they could keep playing.There was no point in Katsuki Yuuri denying it though, they’d played this game for years now. "Maybe I just wanted your attention?” Yuuri looked up and smirked something mischievous, something sinister. That guise melted into the wicked thing that Yuuri was, and Victor knew he was the one who’d been caught.

*fans self* Oh my lord this is SUCH a good one-shot! Gambler extraordinaire!Yuuri??? Married to a rich casino owner Victor??? This. Is. Everything.

This was such a fun and entertaining fic! Light and easy read, you have to check this out!

Falling For Your Charmsby Reiya, Teen, 12k (WIP)Professor Katsuki’s crush on Professor Nikiforov is supposed to be a great secret. So naturally, the whole school knows.

I was really feeling the Harry Potter AUs this week, apparently, and I’m so glad I was! This is SUCH an amazing fic by one of my favourite authors, and made me fall in love with this AU all over again. Must read!

Hey correct me if I'm wrong bc it's been literal years since reading the PJO books, but didn't Grover fall asleep for like a year before the titan war? And if so, then WHY did no-one write a fic about him and Percy bonding over losing an entire year of their lives? AND their mental bond? And what is Grover even doing these days as Lord of the Wild? I just need more Grover in my life tbh.

he did! everyone was wondering where he was and he was asleep in a tree

………..what a good question

as soon as the titan war is over and percy and annabeth have sorted their feelings out, grover and percy sit out in the strawberry fields and grover makes percy tell him everything

“grover you really don’t need to know how many hours of video games i played” “yes i do”

they find that grover is still garbage at panflute, without the monsters percy’s life is relatively boring, and that they really don’t just sit and talk enough

grover also does a serious interrogation about sally and paul

it ends with percy bringing grover back to see sally and she hugs him hard and then proceeds to try to feed him like two dozen batches of cookies

grover offers to sever the mental bond a few more times but every time he does, percy pretends not to hear

they get a lot better at controlling it because percy still stays away from as much technology as possible

sometimes percy will send weird and random thoughts to grover in the middle of class and grover is just like “dude wtf pay attention”

percy once tried to use it to cheat on a test and was like “hey grover ask annabeth something” and annabeth showed up at the apartment to yell at percy and then offer studying tips/advice and a study buddy if he ever needed one

things get like super weird when it’s two am and neither of them can sleep and they just send back strange and sometimes deeply philosophical thoughts

they wake up the next morning like “all i remember is peanut butter and napoleon what happened”

after tartarus, grover checks in on percy all the time. to make sure he’s eating and sleeping and taking care of himself. and to ask if he’s ok, because percy doesn’t lie as well over the mental bond

grover has a lot of duties as lord of the wild that percy doesn’t always understand but he always listens to grover rant about

he’ll latch onto the little things he knows and make commentary on that and grover is like “thank you for understanding”

percy once asks grover if being lord of the wild makes him a god or what and grover just lays down on the ground for a little while because thinking about being considered a god stresses him out

percy lays down with him and starts talking about the new book his mom is working on

most of grover’s duties have to do with protecting animals and the environment, so percy helps him set up time with rachel so he can reach out to the mortal world as well

percy sits with them and tries to pay attention but sometimes he falls asleep and sometimes he doodles with whatever rachel hands him

it takes a while, but eventually percy knows a lot about what grover does!!! and he’s really proud of his best friend!!!

one time, grover is going on and on about this problem he’s having and struggling with, and percy offers up a really informed and good suggestion and grover just stares at him for a moment and was like “how did you remember that?”

Alright listen up, some real shit okay? I will openly and honestly admit…no, not admit, state that I think Lucy Heartfilia is a really good looking girl. Like if I saw her in real life, walking by me. I would spin my head so hard, I triple “The Exorcist” myself, if ya get what I mean. Now…Hiro…My dear friend. Why you gotta post this?!

I NEARLY DIED BRO. LUCY! TANNED?! LIKE SWEET BABY LORD JESUS! I needed every possible fruit on this planned to keep myself from losing all my vitamins in body! LIKE, I…I love it and I am not worthy to have witnessed this on a cloudy sunday London evening. Thank you.

PS: Fuck you Natsu (not really because I love you too man) for having a girl like her. I am gonna sound like a father and say Don’t you dare make her cry in your relationship which you honestly did like….what 5 times this past arc? BUT I AM SAYING, STAY LOYAL, STAY RESPECTFUL AND HAVE FUN….but don’t make her cry aight?

“O you who have attained to faith! Avoid most guesswork [about one another] - for, behold, some of [such] guesswork is [in itself] a sin; and do not spy upon one another, and neither allow yourselves to speak ill of one another behind your backs. Would any of you like to eat the flesh of his dead brother? Nay, you would loathe it! And be conscious of God. Verily, God is an acceptor of repentance, a dispenser of grace!” - The Holy Qur'an [49:12]

Stop saying you’ll do something, but not do it:

“Most loathsome is it in the sight of God that you say what you do not do!” - The Holy Qur'an [61:3]

Stop talking when you’re angry:

“When one of you is angry, he should be silent.” - The Prophet [Al-Adab Al-Mufrad]

Stop thinking that God won’t accept your repentence:

“Even if your sins reached up to the clouds in the sky, I would forgive you.”- Hadith Qudsi [Sunan al-Tirmdhi]

Stop pretending that God won’t forgive you from your sins so you don’t start fresh:

“Why would God cause you to suffer [for your past sins] if you are grateful and attain to belief - seeing that God is always responsive to gratitude, all-knowing?” - The Holy Qur’an [4:147]

Stop telling the other gender to lower their gaze, lower it yourself, that includes online:

“Tell the believing men to lower their gaze and to be mindful of their chastity: this will be most conducive to their purity - [and,] verily, God is aware of all that they do… And tell the believing women to lower their gaze and to be mindful of their chastity.” - The Holy Qur'an [24:30]

Stop being mean to those who have wronged you:

“Excellence is being kind to those who are evil to you.” - Prophet Eisa (Jesus) [Tafsir ibn Kathir]

“Who are the learned? Those who practice what they know.” - The Prophet [Bukhari]

Stop procrastinating and work hard:

“The believer dies with sweat on his brow.” - The Prophet [Tirmidhi]

Stop envying other people:

“Beware of envy, for envy consumes good works as fire consumes wood.” - The Prophet [Abu Dawud]

Stop chasing things that you know aren’t good for you:

“…it may well be that you hate a thing the while it is good for you, and it may well be that you love a thing the while it is bad for you: and God knows, whereas you do not know.” - The Holy Qur’an [2:216]

Stop forgetting that God is testing you with hardships:

“Do people think that they will be left alone because they say: ‘We believe,’ and will not be tested?” - The Holy Qur'an [29:2]

“And most certainly shall We try you by means of danger, and hunger, and loss of worldly goods, of lives and of [labour’s] fruits. But give glad tidings unto those who are patient in adversity -” - The Holy Qur'an [2:155]

Stop forgetting that God knows you can get through these hardships:

“God does not burden any human being with more than he is well able to bear” - The Holy Qur'an [2:286]

“God does not burden any human being with more than He has given him - [and it may well be that] God will grant, after hardship, ease.” - The Holy Qur'an [65:7]

“Seek closeness [to God] and be steadfast.. in all that afflicts the believer there is atonement, even a thorn that pricks him.” - The Prophet [Tirmidhi]

Stop taking your free time and health for granted:

“Two favors that many of the people squander are health and free time.” - The Prophet [Tirmidhi]

Stop fooling yourself into thinking that those sins you do lead to better things than what God can give:

“There is nothing that you leave out of God-consciousness [taqwa] except that God will compensate you with something better” - The Prophet [Ahmad]

Stop forgetting that God remembers those who do good:

“O son of Adam, I do not forget the person who disobeys Me, so how can I forget someone who obeys Me?” - Hadith Qudsi

Stop finding excuses to not give money in charity:

“A man said: 'O Messenger of God, which kind of charity is best? He said: 'Giving charity when you are in good health, and feeling stingy, hoping for a long life and fearing poverty.”’ [Nasa'i]

“[O believers,] never shall you attain to true piety unless you spend on others out of what you cherish yourselves;” - The Qur'an [3:92]

Stop waiting for God to make a change you need to make:

“Indeed, God will not change the condition of a people until they change what is in themselves.” - The Holy Qur'an [13:11]

Stop forgetting to pray for your parents, here, the Dua for parents:

[rabbi irhamhuma kama rabbayanee sagheera] “My Lord, have mercy upon them as they brought me up [when I was] small” [17:24]

Stop thinking that being young doesn’t matter, of the protected people on Youm Al-Qiyamah it includes:

“a youth who grew up with the worship of God” - The Prophet [Bukhari]

Stop pretending that wealth and worldly stuff is a reward from God, they’re tests:

“and know that your worldly goods and your children are but a trial and a temptation, and that with God there is a tremendous reward” [8:28]

Just remember: “The Prophet said, 'My Lord says…if he comes to Me walking, I go to him running.’” - [Bukhari]

Isn’t Jesus so great? He really is such a loving Father. He’s the perfect combination of conviction and Grace. He will lovingly convict us, and show us what areas of our life need fixing. At the same time, He does it in a way that reminds us that He loves us unconditionally. He’s such a God of balance. I struggle trying to love people even through their flaws, and as much as I want to stay consistent, I fall short all the time. He never does. He can do it all. He holds all things together with perfect peace. He knows what He is doing and He holds my whole world together. I’m in great hands!

it’s important to note that while shit lords go for galactic conquest as much as any sith, they also pull shit like tp’ing the jedi temple. also, selfies are more fun with ‘friends.’

@ star wars fandom why aren’t there more kotor/tcw crossovers. the parallels between kotor and tcw are super important to me and the kotor allusions in both tcw and rebels is what carries me through the day.